Congregational Leaders | Leadership Tips



Church Vitality Indicator: Online Assessment Tool
	Looking to revitalize your church? The Church Vitality Indicator is an affordable, customized, and interactive online assessment tool that can help congregations of all sizes and in all settings. Using cutting-edge technology to produce an assessment of your church's health, the Church Vitality Indicator begins with an online survey that a group from your church takes together. From your responses, the tool gauges the strengths of your current reality and the ministry areas of greatest potential.
L³ Leadership Incubator Guidebook
	By Barry Carpenter, Craig Kennet Miller, Craig Robertson Through the L³ Leadership Incubator, leaders are formed in community with other leaders. This initiative creates an environment where spiritual leaders are mutually coached, nurtured, and developed. Participants make a commitment to meet regularly for peer-to-peer learning and coaching as they develop a ministry action plan for their congregations.
Leading in a Congregation: What Every Leader Needs to Know
	By Michael A. Bealla Each booklet in the "What Every Leader Needs to Know Series" provides practical, basic resources that will enable leaders to create environments for faith formation, model Christian spiritual development grounded in the means of grace, and equip all people to be in ministry in their daily lives.
Job Descriptions & Leadership Training for Local Church Leaders 2005-2008
	By Thomas R. Hawkins (Discipleship Resources, 2004) This packet of job descriptions and suggestions for leadership training is intended for pastors and laity who want to strengthen their congregation’s leaders. It begins with a look at the biblical and theological foundations for the development of a leadership development system.
Knowing Those in Your Community
	The Research Office of the General Board of Global Ministries provides data and explanations that help The United Methodist Church keep in touch with the communities in which we live.
What Business Are We In?
	Have you ever asked this question of your church? In Behold I Do a New Thing, C. Kirk Hadaway deals with the question of purpose in a time of radical change and discusses how churches can stay ahead of the future rather than one step behind.
Leaderships
	Have you noticed the obsession with leadership that we seem to have in the church? It reflects the dual impression that leadership is critically important and that it is sorely lacking.
Leaderships II
	We have many capable men and women providing high quality leadership to the church, but is it the most appropriate leadership style for the context? Do our churches have to start over with each pastoral reappointment, or do they build upon each successive pastorate?
Leadership Interaction Styles and Paint Cans?
	It is easy to see how the different leadership styles might cause tension and conflict when mixed together. Our tendency is to settle on our way as the "right" way.


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